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TIL: The American Bald Eagle sounds like a seagull. The mighty screech that is often dubbed over the image of a bald eagle is actually the cry of a Red Tailed Hawk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2uMauyBow

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 05:00AM by Slaight144
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TIL perp walks (perpetrator walks) are illegal in France, as it is illegal to publish pictures of an identifiable person in handcuffs or police custody unless they have been convicted
https://ift.tt/3fakMIO

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 11:57AM by SsmVgoXDq2w
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TIL in the Philippines, the legal term for car-theft is "carnapping." This is because when cars used to be very rare in the country and were prized status-items, thieves would steal and hold them for ransom like in a kidnapping. Now the term is used for both car-theft and carjacking cases.
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Submitted July 07, 2020 at 10:23AM by Khysamgathys
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TIL of Alexei Berest, who was the Soviet soldier that raised the flag over the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin. He was not given recognition for his role in lifting the flag for unknown reasons. He later died in 1970 after saving a child from being hit by a train.
https://ift.tt/2VTAkJ3

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 01:33PM by justletmeiniforgot
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TIL that the video game Rock Band: The Beatles was produced under the code name Rock Band: Nickelback, in order to keep the game's development a secret and deflect curiosity about it
https://ift.tt/1Vb0IFO

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 03:31PM by AKMan6
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TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.
https://ift.tt/2t5PMpn

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 03:47PM by ExacRan
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TIL The Independent news is owned by a Russian oligarch, his son, and a Sultan from Saudi Arabia.
https://ift.tt/2ZKcTmJ

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 05:15PM by thisoldmould
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TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
https://ift.tt/2O0TyYS

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 02:35PM by LMUK
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TIL that serial killer Randy Woodfield was actually drafted by the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers but was cut due to a series of indecent exposure arrests. He would go on to become the I-5 Killer and is thought to have been responsible for over 40 murders along Interstate 5 from 1980-81
https://ift.tt/1T31Ydw

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 06:44PM by TomberryServo
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TIL that US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq is world's largest (almost of the same size as Vatican City). It houses its own power station, water & sewage treatment, internet and phone network, gym, cinema and sports facilities. Also has 6 apartment buildings for employees.
https://ift.tt/1HSvRou

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 05:50PM by sam-com
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TIL Tomb Raider was initially going to give players the choice of playing either a male or female protagonist. Lara Croft creator, Toby Gard, decided to scrap the male option after realizing having two player characters doubled the amount of work required for the cut-scenes and also preferred Lara.
https://ift.tt/2gSZ4ha

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 07:28PM by Itsformereally22
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TIL that in the 1630s there was a song only played in the Sistine chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of "Miserere Mei, Deus" secret for 150 years,until 14-year old Mozart listened to it 2 times, transcribed it from memory and produced the first unauthorized copy.Earliest record of music piracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 08:38PM by Jimbos013
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TIL Charlize Theron has suffered many injuries such as dislocating her jaw due to a camel and laughing so hard at Borat that her neck locked up for 5 days
https://ift.tt/3gFgJEF

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 07:14PM by the5pacepope
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TIL Seth Putnam, lead singer of the grindcore band Anal Cunt, wrote a song making fun of comatose people called ‘You’re in a Coma’. Putnam himself was in a coma years later, and after waking remarked that “being in a coma was just as fuckin’ stupid as I wrote it was”.
https://ift.tt/1CYmK61

Submitted July 08, 2020 at 01:35AM by churnice
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TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.
https://ift.tt/2DeIyFb

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 11:59PM by CrispyCheesyToast
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TIL Sea Lions are considered to have the foulest-smelling flatulence of any animal, "by far"
https://ift.tt/3iEUTmr

Submitted July 08, 2020 at 03:27AM by bwee33
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TIL: While only 2 percent of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits, most East Asians and almost all Koreans lack this gene.
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Submitted July 08, 2020 at 12:23AM by Ozaam
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TIL: Humanity invented nuclear weapons before we invented compound bows.
https://ift.tt/1D1al29

Submitted July 08, 2020 at 03:48AM by Mad_Myshkin
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